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Childrens early development at risk with year-long NHS waits
Posted onNick Triggle,Health correspondentand Elena Bailey,Health reporter Getty Images Tens of thousands of children in England have spent more than a year waiting for NHS community care such as hearing services, speech and language therapy and disability support, the BBC has found. The analysis shows a quarter of the 300,000 children on waiting lists have been…
Mum describes period pain agony before endometriosis diagnosis
Posted onKirsteen O’Sullivan, Windsor BBC Reah Steer and her husband Jono underwent IVF treatment after her diagnosis of endometriosis A mother has spoken out about dealing with severe period pain for two decades before finally being diagnosed with endometriosis. Reah Steer, 34, from Windsor in Berkshire, described enduring years of agony and being prescribed the contraceptive…
First person gets new experimental vaccine for Bundibugyo species of Ebola
Posted onProf Teresa Lamb, who led the Ebola vaccine team at the University of Oxford, said they had been able to create it so quickly because of the background of decades of research. ββShe explained how they would confirm that the vaccine was effective at protecting people. It cannot give anyone Ebola. ββ”We will not be…
Tatiana Schlossberg essay raises awareness of acute myeloid leukemia
Posted onTatiana Schlossberg, granddaughter of former US President John F Kennedy, moved many Americans over the weekend with her emotional essay about being diagnosed with terminal cancer shortly after giving birth to her second child. In the New Yorker, the 35-year-old stunned readers, writing that she was battling acute myeloid leukaemia (AML), an aggressive blood cancer,…
Gloucestershire support network helped us to breastfeed, say mums
Posted onClara Bullock & Nicky Price BBC News, Gloucestershire Manpreet Pinder Manpreet Pinder volunteers as a breastfeeding peer supporter Two mums who struggled to breastfed their babies have said they would have struggled without the help of a peer support group. Manpreet Pinder, who has since trained as a volunteer breastfeeding peer supporter, and her sister,…
Charity Cosmic to support parents whose children are sent to ICU
Posted onBBC Charlotte Creevy was supported by a charity after her son stopped breathing Charlotte Creevy’s son Seth was two weeks old when he stopped breathing and was rushed to intensive care at a London hospital. “What kept going through my mind was, ‘Is he going to live or die?’” Charlotte said Seth had contracted three…
